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1917: Vladimir Lenin, Woodrow Wilson, and the Birth of the New World Disorder by Herman PhD, Arthur is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This is the story of two men, and the two decisions, that transformed world history in a single tumultuous year, 1917: Wilson's entry into World War One and Lenin's Bolshevik Revolution. In April 1917 Woodrow Wilson, champion of American democracy but also segregation; advocate for free trade and a new world order based on freedom and justice; thrust the United States into World War One in order to make the "world safe for democracy"--Only to see his dreams for a liberal international system dissolve into chaos, bloodshed, and betrayal. That October Vladimir Lenin, communist revolutionary and advocate for class war and "dictatorship of the proletariat," would overthrow Russia's earlier democratic revolution that had toppled the all-power Czar, all in the name of liberating humanity--and instead would set up the most repressive totalitarian regime in history, the Soviet Union. In this incisive, fast-paced history, New York Times bestselling author Arthur Herman brilliantly reveals how Lenin and Wilson rewrote the rules of modern geopolitics. Through the end of World War I, countries only marched into war to increase or protect their national interests. After World War I, countries b

Who reads 1917: Vladimir Lenin, Woodrow Wilson, and the Birth of the New World Disorder?

Author

Herman PhD, Arthur

Publisher

Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780062791467

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Language Learning, World History